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A. J. GARLETON.

PAPER EULING MACHINE. I No. 49,614. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

lllllllhl llll ll NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREIV J. CARLETON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EDWIN J. PIPER, OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER-RULING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,614, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed December 4, 1890. Serial No. 373,536. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. CARLETQN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paper-Ruling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the improvement of paper-ruling machines, and especially the provision in such machines of an unusually efficient support for the paper under the pens, and such a support as Will not when there is no paper thereover and the pens are in their working or depressed positions be soiled or smeared by or in any manner receive ink from the pens.

The invention is carried out by parts or instrumentalit-ies in construction and combination or arrangement, substantially as will hereinafter more fully appear, and be set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which the invention is illustrated, and in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of such parts of a paper-ruling machine as embody the present improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a View in plan to illustrate a slight modification to be hereinafter referred to.

In the drawings, a a and Z) 1) represent the upper and lower sets of carrier cords or tapes, and c c c certain of the supporting and propelling rolls for the said cords.

d represents the clamping beam or bar for the pens fff, which pens and pen-bar are of an ordinary construction, the former being supported on the latter in an ordinary manner, and the pen-bar is mounted on theframe of the ruling-machine in a usual manner, so as to swing to present the pens into the position shown in Fig. 1, or slightly elevated from that position when paper is passing through the machine with the carrier-cords, or up clear and away from the plane of travel of the paper.

g represents a bar extending across the machine from side to side thereof under the line or lines of arrangement of the one or more gangs of pens employed, the top surface of said bar lying about coincident with the plane of travel of the paper and the carriercords therefor, and the upper-surface of said bar constitutes a substantially solid or continuous support for the paper under the pens for insuring a most perfect and even ruling of the paper by the pens.

It will be particularly noted that the said bar g is recessed directly beneath each and every pen carried by the pen-bar thereover, so that should a sheet be run through the machine off of and beyond said bar not to be replaced by another and the pens should have a slight downward movement or deflection below the working-plane of the points thereof the points of said pens will be disposed within the'said recesses below the top surface of the said bar g, and of course not being in contact with said upper surface of the bar the latter will not receive thereon any portions of the ink from the pens to soil the said supporting-bar and impart to the next sheet of paper when carried thereover a soiled, blotted, or smutty appearance.

It is preferred to form the pen-accommodating recesses in the supporting-bar in the form of elongated grooves h h, one for or common to each gang of pens carried on the penbar and in a line corresponding to the line of arrangement of said series of pens and as particularly shown in the drawings; but of course the spirit of the invention would still be observed if a separate recess, depression, or perforation were made in the bar 9 under and for each individual pen, as indicated in the plan view, Fig. 3, although for obvious reasons such latter plan is not as desirable as the one hereinabove first particularly mentioned and illustrated.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

the pens thereinto and below the upper papensnpporting surface of said rest, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a paper-ruling machine, the combination, with the carrier-cords, the pen-bar, and one or more series or gangs of pens thereon, of a fixed bar g, traversing the machine under the carriers and under the points of the pens and having one or more grooves h in its upper side under and coinciding with the one IO or more series of pens, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ANDRIHV J. CARLETOY. XV itn esses:

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